The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1887-11-10


be attuned. But by what force and In
what way?
In olden time the choristers had tun-
ing fork with two prongs, and they
would strike it on the back of pew or
music rack, and put it to the ear, and
then start the tune and all the other
voices would Join. In modern orchestra
the leader has a complete instrument,
rightly attuned, and he sounds that, and
all the other performers turn the keys of
their instruments to make them CORE
spond, and sound the bow over the
string and listen, and sound out oyer
again, until all the keys are screwed to
concert pitch and the discords melt into
one great symphony, and the curtain
hoists and the baton taps, and audiences
are raptured with Schumann' paradise
and the Peri" or Rossini's "Stabat
Mater" or Bach's "Magniicat' in D,
or Gounod's Redemption.
Now, our world can never be attuned
by an imperfect instrument. Even a
Cremona would not do. Heaven has Or
dained the only instrument, and it IL
made out of the wood of the cross, and
the voices that accompany it are i'm
ported voices, cantatrices OF the first
Christmas night, when heaven serenaded
the earth with: ''Glory to God in the
highest and on earth peace, good will to
men, Lest we start too far off and get
lost in generalities, we had better begin
with ourselves, get our own hearts ami
life in harmony with the eternal Chriet.
Oh, for his almighty spirit to attune Us,
to chord our will with His wili, to modu.
late our life with His life and bring 4ig
into unison with all that is pure and self
sacrificing and heavenly. The strings of
our nature are all broken and twisted,
and the bow is so slack it cannot evoke
anything mellifluous. The instrument
made for heaven to play on has been
roughly twanged and struck by infiu-
ences worldly and demoniac. 0 master
hand of Christ, restore this split and frac-
tured and despoiled and unstrung nature
until first it shall wall out for our sin and
then trill with divine pardon.
The whole world must also be attuned
by the same power. A few days ago l
was in the Fairbanks weighing scale
manufactory of Vermont. Six hundred
hands, and they have never had a strike.
Complete harmony between labor and
capital; the operatives of scores Of years
in their beautiful homes, near by the
mansions of the manufacturers, whose
invention and Christian behavior made
the great enterprise. So, all the world
over, labor and capital will be brought
into euphony. You may have heard
what is called the Anvil Chorus, COM
T1a-oI Nv No4.Ii ,1I,y-o1 Iy-l
mers, great and small, now with mighty
stroke, and now with heavy stroke, beat
ing q great iron anvil. That is what the
world has got to come to-anvil chorus,
yardstick chorus, shuttle chorus, trOwel
chorus, crowbar chorus, pickax chorus,
gold mine chorus, rail track chorus, loco
motive chorus. 1t can be done and it W i'll
be done So all social life will be at
tuned by the Gospel harp. There viii be
as many classes in society as now, hut
the classes will not be regulated by birth,
or wealth, or accident. but by the scale
of virtue and benevolence, and people
will be assigned to their places as good,
or very good, or most excellent. So,
also, commercial life will be attuned, and
there will be twelve in every dozen, and
| sixteen ounces in every pound, and ap-
PIES at the bottom of the barrel viii be as
sound as those on the top, and silk goods
viii not be cotton, and sellers will not
have to charge honest people more than
the right price because others will moi
pay, and goods will come to you GORE
spending with the sample by which you
| purchased them, and coffee will not bf
chickoried, and sugar will not be sanded
| and milk will not be chalked, and adul
| teration OF food will be states prison
! s.ifense. Aye, all things shall be attuned
Elections in England and the United
| States will no more be grand carIit va
Gf defamation and scurrility, but the ele
| vation Of righteous men in a righteous
! way.
In the Sixteenth century the singer
| called the Fischer Brothers reached tbs
| lowest bass ever recorded, and the high
! est note ever trilled was by La Bastar
| della, and Catalini's voice had a compass
| of three and half octaves; but Chris
tianity is more wonderful; for it runs al
| up and down the greatest heights and th
deepest depths of the worlds necessity
and it will compass everything and brin2
|
morning stars sang at the laying Of tn
worlds corner stone. All the sacret
music in homes, and concert halls an'
churches tends toward this consumma
ton. Make it more and more hearty
Sing in your families. Sing in you
places of business. If we with prope
spirit use these faculties, we are rehears
ing for the skies,
Heaven is to have a new song, an sn
tireiy new song, but I should not wonde
if, as sometime on earth a tune is fash
ioned out of many tunes, or it is one tIn
with the variations, SO some of the song
of the redeemed may have playing
through them the songs of earth, au,
how thrilling as coming through tn
great anthem of the saved, accOmpanie
by harpers with their harps, and trumpet
ers with their trumpets, we should haa
some of the strains of Antioch an
Mount Pisgah, and Coronation, an
Lenox, and st. Martin s, and Fountain
and Ariel, and Old Hundred. How the
would bring to mind the praying circle:
and communion days, and the Christine
festivals, and the church worship i
which on earth we mingled! [ have Il
idea that when we bid farewell to cart
we are to bid farewell to all these gran
old Gospel hymns, which melted an
raptured our souls for so many year
Now, my friends, IL sin is discord an
Righteousness is harmony, let us get OF
of the one and enter the other. AftC
our dreadful civil war was owe
and in the summer of 1869, a gre;
national peace jubilee was hel
in Boston, and as an elder
this church had been honored by Il
selection of some of his music, to be rel
dered on that occasion, accompanit
hin2 TO the jubilee. Forty thousand pc
pie Sat and stood in the great Coliseu,
erected for that purpose. Thousands
wind and stringed Instruments. TWel'
thousand trained voices. The mast
pieces of all ages rendered, hour aft
hoar, and day after day - Handel
Judas Maccabaus,' Spobr's La
, Judgment" Beethoven's ''Mount Of {
ives, Haydn's Creation, MendeI
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